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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU Women's Golf has been picked to finish second in the upcoming 2017-18 season by Great American Conference head coaches. The preseason poll, voted on by all nine head coaches in the conference, was announced Tuesday afternoon by the league office. Arkansas Tech topped the poll, receiving six first-place nods after taking the conference championship by four strokes last year. SWOSU picked up two first-place votes, coming in second in the poll and edging out third place Henderson State by a single point and one extra fir...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Aug. 29, 2017) – The preseason for Oklahoma Christian women's soccer has been a learning process, for both the players and their new coach, Meagan Anderson. Anderson, a former player and assistant coach for OC, returned to the program in May after former coach Randall Robison resigned, ending a nine-season run at the helm. Robison and his staff recruited all but two current players on the roster, which meant that there wasn't much time for Anderson to familiarize herself with the players, and vice versa. The adjustment process, A...
WACO, Texas (Aug. 29, 2017) –The Heartland Conference, through a partnership with Sidearm Sports, has launched the Heartland Conference Digital Network, which will host hundreds of video live streams during the 2017-18 academic year. The Heartland's digital network will feature live video, audio and stats from the conference's nine institutions. "We're very excited to be launching the Heartland Conference Digital Network, which represents an exciting chapter in our conference's nearly 20-year history," Heartland Commissioner Tony Stigliano s...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – For the sixth straight year, Arkansas Tech women's golf has been named the favorite in the Great American Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll, announced by the league office on Tuesday. The Golden Suns are coming off a 2016-17 season which saw Tech claim the NCAA Division II Women's Golf Central Super Regional Championship, its third straight GAC Championship and its second bid in the last three years to the NCAA Division II National Championships. Head Coach Amy Anderson was named the WGCA Central Region Coach of the Y...
Game Story Harding Football opens its 67th season of intercollegiate competition Thursday at 7 p.m. against Henderson State at First Security Stadium. The Bisons, defending GAC champions, have won 11 consecutive regular season games and are attempting to win their 10th straight home game for the fi rst time in program history. Harding's last home loss was Oct. 10, 2015, a 22-17 setback against Henderson State. Harding is ranked No. 15 in the AFCA Preseason Top 25 Coaches Poll, the highest the Bisons have ever been ranked in the preseason....
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – With the threat of heavy rainfall and severe storms moving into the area later this week, the Ouachita Tiger Football home opener versus Northwestern Oklahoma State University has been rescheduled. The game will now be played on Wednesday, August 30, one day prior to the originally scheduled date. Kick off for Wednesday's game will be at 5:00 p.m. "The safety of the student-athletes, the student body and the fans is our number one priority," Ouachita Baptist Athletic Director David Sharp said. "Moving the game up a day a...
FIRST SERVE The 2017 Lady Mulerider Volleyball season begins on Tuesday night at the Williams Baptist Tri-Match and high expectations abound this season under second-year Head Coach Britney Davis as Southern Arkansas sets its sights on returning to the Great American Conference Tournament after missing out on the eighth and final spot in 2016. SAU opens its 2017 campaign in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, with a pair of matches against John Brown University and host Williams Baptist College. The NAIA doubleheader will serve as a tune-up for the Lady...
WASHINGTON (AP) — So much for North Korea's restraint. So much for President Donald Trump's threats of "fire and fury." After Pyongyang's highly provocative missile test over close American ally Japan, Trump offered a surprisingly subdued response Tuesday, pulling back from his administration's recent suggestions of a dialogue with the communist country but also avoiding a repeat of his bombastic warnings earlier this month of a potential military confrontation. Instead, Trump's terse, written statement reiterating that all U.S. options are b...
HOUSTON (AP) — With its flood defenses strained, the crippled city of Houston anxiously watched dams and levees Tuesday to see if they would hold until the rain stops, and meteorologists offered the first reason for hope — a forecast with less than an inch of rain and even a chance for sunshine. The human toll continued to mount, both in deaths and in the ever-swelling number of scared people made homeless by the catastrophic storm that is now the heaviest tropical downpour in U.S. history. The city's largest shelter was overflowing when the...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — With flag-waving optimism, President Donald Trump answered Harvey's wrath Tuesday by offering in-person assurances to those in the storm zone that his administration will work tirelessly to help the region recover from the massive flooding and storm-inflicted destruction. "We are going to get you back and operating immediately," Trump told an impromptu crowd that gathered outside a Corpus Christi fire station about 30 miles from where the storm made landfall Friday. For all of his eagerness to get the federal d...
Houston's mayor kept facing questions Tuesday about his decision not to order an evacuation of the notoriously flood-prone city ahead of Harvey's arrival, even as overflowing reservoirs led several suburbs to move people out. Instead, Mayor Sylvester Turner remained resolute in his advice to residents since the storm made landfall on Friday: hunker down at home. Massive flooding from Harvey forced thousands of rescues that overwhelmed emergency responders. The George R. Brown Convention Center nearly doubled its expected capacity of 5,000,...
HOUSTON (AP) — Michael Bedner saw disasters come and go during his 33 years with the Houston Police Department. Harvey, however, just won't go away. Bedner rides out every storm in his creekside community between Houston and Galveston Bay, and never gets more than a few feet of water on the edge of his property before the sun comes out again. With the water creeping up to his door Friday, he knew this time was different. A neighbor whisked him and his fiance to dry land on a jet ski. Bedner is grateful to be safe, but "we have been trying to ge...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more weapons tests targeting the Pacific Ocean, Pyongyang announced Wednesday, a day after his nation for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan. Tuesday's aggressive missile launch — likely the longest ever from North Korea — over the territory of a close U.S. ally sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said it was a Hwasong-12 inter...
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston's system of bayous and reservoirs was built to drain a tabletop-flat city prone to heavy rains. But its Depression-era design is no match for the stresses brought by explosive development and ever-wetter storms. Nearly any city would be overwhelmed by the more than 4 feet of rain that Hurricane Harvey has dumped since Friday, but Houston is unique in its regular massive floods and inability to cope with them. This is the third 100-year-or-more type of flood in three years. Experts blame too many people, too much c...
CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday identified the gunman accused of opening fire inside a New Mexico public library as a 16-year-old high school student who they say killed a youth librarian and a second employee while wounding four people, including a 10-year-old boy. Witnesses said the teen seemed to fire randomly during the rampage. Nathaniel Jouett will face two counts of first-degree murder, four counts of assault with intent to commit a violent felony, four counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and one count of c...
NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans from New York and New Jersey are pledging unconditional support for those devastated by Hurricane Harvey. But their resentment lingers. As historic floods wreaked havoc across the Gulf Coast, Northeastern Republicans recalled with painful detail the days after Superstorm Sandy ravaged their region in 2012. At the time, Texas' Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, overwhelmingly opposed a disaster relief package they argued was packed with wasteful spending. The debate delayed the passage of the Sandy relief p...
HOUSTON (AP) — Joel Osteen opened his Houston megachurch to those seeking shelter from floodwaters Tuesday after social media critics slammed the televangelist for not offering to house people in need while Harvey swamps the city. Among those who came to Lakewood Church — a 16,000-seat former arena that was the longtime home of the NBA's Houston Rockets — was Jack Bullman. The 56-year-old Long Pine resident sat with a baby blue towel hanging around his neck, trying to dry off and get warm. "Usually a hurricane comes by and you get hit with...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to never evacuate Jewish settlements from occupied land drew outrage Tuesday from Palestinians and complicated matters for the Trump administration's would-be peace envoys as they try to restart talks. The Palestinians called on the White House to intervene, and visiting U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenged Netanyahu's comments, reiterating the international community's opposition to Israeli settlements. Well over 100 settlements dot the West Bank and a string of U...
HOUSTON (AP) — With more guests than cots, some people slept on chairs or the floor. People hung towels and wet clothes on the base of the ceiling supports. Police officers guarded several entrances. Outside, dozens of people still awake stood with their pets and traded cigarettes. People who escaped rising floodwaters and pouring rain spawned by Harvey arrived at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Monday night by the busload and truckload even as the convention center exceeded its capacity of 5,000. The second night inside the center w...
BERLIN (AP) — German officials expect to bring new charges against a nurse already serving a life sentence for two murders after determining that he might have killed another 84 patients, if not more, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Oldenburg state prosecutor Martin Koziolek said he expected his office would be bringing more charges by early 2018 against inmate Niels Hoegel, who gave patients overdoses of heart medication and other drugs because he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them. Additional convictions could affect Hoegel's p...
MOSCOW (AP) — In a bid to dispel Western fears about planned war games by Russia and Belarus, the Russian military said Tuesday the maneuvers simulating a response to foreign-backed "extremists" won't threaten anyone. The maneuvers, to be held Sept. 14-20 in Belarus and western Russia, have raised NATO concerns. Some alliance members, including the Baltic states and Poland, have criticized Moscow for a lack of transparency and questioned its intentions. Amid spiraling tensions over fighting in Ukraine, Western worries about the planned m...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has made the fight against "Islamic terrorism" in Syria and Iraq the top priority in his foreign policy agenda. Speaking Tuesday to French diplomats gathered at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Macron called the Islamic State group "our enemy." "Restoring peace and stability — Iraq then Syria — is vital priority for France," he said. He proposed creating a new contact group including the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to help handle negotiations with Syria. He didn't give more...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — No ring of the doorbell, just a text. No tip for the driver? No problem in this test, where Domino's and Ford are teaming up to see if customers will warm to the idea of pizza delivered by driverless cars. Starting Wednesday, some pizzas in Domino's hometown of Ann Arbor will arrive in a Ford Fusion outfitted with radars and a camera that is used for autonomous testing. A Ford engineer will be at the wheel, but the front windows have been blacked out so customers won't interact with the driver. Instead, people will h...
CHICAGO (AP) — Three times a week, Rita Driscoll steps onto a treadmill at a Minnesota hospital under the eye of a rehab therapist. She walks until it hurts — pushing her limits, walking faster and adding steeper inclines. The retired school aide has leg pain caused by clogged blood vessels. Until recently, monitored walking wasn't an option for people with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, because most insurance doesn't cover it. "I'm not giving up my legs," said Driscoll, who walks as part of a study. "Hopefully it will keep me away fro...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some seek their distance, delicately taking issue with President Donald Trump's most controversial remarks. Others decide it's safer to stand by him. Most would rather say nothing at all. Under intense pressure, members of Trump's Cabinet are struggling to walk the line between rebuking their notoriously thin-skinned boss and defending comments that struck even many loyal Republicans as offensive. Though the friction has been building for months, Trump's polarizing response to white nationalism in Charlottesville was a c...
